名不正，則言不順；言不順，則事不成。

so cool that when Kurosawa made Seven Samurai, he was like, "What if a movie absolutely ripped for three-and-a-half hours straight?"

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The Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Arizona invites applications for a tenure-eligible Assistant Professor position to serve as Japanese Language Program Director! One of THREE open positions in EAS!

Thanks to generous funding from the James P. Geiss and Margaret Y. Hsu Foundation, we are pleased to offer grants of up to $2,000 to support the attendance of Ming Studies scholars at #AAS2026 in Vancouver. Apply by December 18 for this opportunity! bit.ly/AAS2026Ming

Another new one! Women Writers of Huizhou by Bin Bin Yang (UW Press)

Looking forward to reading this one, Peng Xu’s new book The Courtesan’s Memory, Voice, and Late Ming Drama (U Mich Press)

U of Arizona East Asian Studies is hiring a tenure-track Chinese Language Program director! I'm happy to answer any questions about it, the department, Tucson, etc. Please circulate widely:

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

Playing around with AppleScript to automate boring professor stuff and how did I go so long without doing this?

This would be the end of the University of Arizona's Center for East Asian Studies:

Inside Higher Ed reporting on funding for National Resource Centers like the one here at University of Arizona. If the already-awarded federal funds are not released by 9/30, they are gone and the Center for East Asian Studies will likely close.

We founded the U of Arizona Center for East Asian Studies three years ago with a US Dept of Education grant. Last Friday marked the end of year 3 of 4. Though the grant was for four years, we have not received word about year 4 funding. Without this support, we have no choice but to close down.

It's officially my book's publication date! The online open access version is available now, link below. Read online or download the pdf copy I want you to have, all without having to go to some shady website for a pirated copy! www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...

Start your weekend with an ambient DJ tea ceremony

Ariel Stilerman - Court Poetry and the Culture of Learning in Japan À paraître en mars aux Harvard UP

Start your day by watching James Brown commandeer David Letterman's show

Speaking of Genji, if anyone is interested, the audiobook of the Tyler translation, read by Brian Nishii, is quite good. Somebody please get him to do a Heike audiobook!

A job going in Singapore! ntu.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/Careers/job/...

Living for those green smileys... Tideman here I come! #CS50x

Love to see those green smileys.... #CS50

Did the excellent @cs50.harvard.edu Python first, now going back to do the "big" CS50. Spending a lot of time thinking, "This would be SO much easier in Python than C...." Also, entering forgotten semicolons....

not looking good for Princeton University Press is it @princetonupress.bsky.social the video can be found on Facebook www.facebook.com/share/v/16Rv...

Unlock a world of knowledge. Use code 095000 to take 50% off all books in print* now through Friday, June 27th. Don’t miss out on this opportunity! See all books: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/books/ * US orders only. Excludes Leuven UP. Not applicable for pre-order books.

Look what just landed on my doorstep, the Rutledge Handbook of Traditional Chinese Literature with my Water Margin entry!

“Is it such a stretch to imagine remix culture coming to reading? Which of the many versions of New Order’s ‘Blue Monday’ is the real one?” Oh man, do I have a book about early modern Chinese fiction for you!

Next they will be talking about the Decline of Western Civilization

“The Fulbright Program's mission is to bring a little more knowledge, a little more reason, and a little more compassion into world affairs and thereby increase the chance that nations will learn at last to live in peace and friendship.” — Senator J. William Fulbright

Imre Galambos talking to Joachim Gentz about oracle bones as objects, a good one!

Are you interested in studying Tibetan? The Center for East Asian Studies is offering a Tibetan language tuition-waived program funded by the US Dept. of Education with the cooperation of the University of Kansas. Fill out this interest form by June 20th: tinyurl.com/CEAS-Tibet

The FY 2026 budget proposal from the Department of Education zeroes out funding for foreign language and international programs in higher education (Title VI). www.ed.gov/about/ed-ove...

Bob Mould (!) gave a commencement address at his alma mater, Macalester College

The proposed federal budget cancels international education and foreign language studies funding completely

Hello #AsianStudies community! 👋 We’re thrilled to join #Bluesky. Follow us for updates on our books, journals, digital resources, events and CfPs covering Asian Studies—across #history, #philosophy, #religion, #literature and #culturalstudies. We can’t wait to connect with you all!

"This is a huge win for Arizona, as it’s the state’s first nonstop regularly scheduled link to Asia."

Summary of an interesting new study (and dating) of the "Star Manual of Master Shi" (石氏星經), archaeologymag.com/2025/05/chin...

Sad news. Yale's Ten Thousand Rooms Project will be phased out this year: "... the practical challenges of maintaining the site have proved too daunting. Updating the site and ensuring its long-term viability would require a massive overhaul, which we do not have the funds for." #sinology

The president and the senior VP of research at the University of Arizona wrote an editorial advocating for funding research

Forthcoming from U Michigan Press: Teaching and Transformation in Popular Confucian Literature of the Late Qing, by Katherine Alexander

Forthcoming from U Washington Press: Observing the Unseen: Curiosity and Common Knowledge in Early Modern China, by Andrew Schonebaum

Forthcoming from Brill: The Vernacular World of Pu Songling: Popular Literature and Manuscript Culture in Late Imperial China, by Zhenzhen Lu brill.com/display/titl...

If every person who thinks this is a good idea contributed $10 to the legal costs, we’d be able to cover them right now. MLA’s link is here: www.mla.org/About-Us/Sup...

Same illustration as the cover of my book!!! Never seen this before.

"All those community colleges... Arizona State, Grand Canyon...." 👀

okay dorks what's the most accessible way for me to become three kingdoms pilled

Asian Histories & Heritages in Video Games Event! Those interested in philosophy, literary, cultural, game, and/or Asian studies are highly recommended to join us for the upcoming "15 Hour Reading Club!" Friday, April 25th from 6-7 PM (MST) over Zoom Book to read: tinyurl.com/2up6vkrr

“First principles, Clarice. Read Marcus Aurelius. Of each particular thing ask: what is it in itself? What is its nature? What does he do, this man you seek?”

Ran into my old friend Imre Galambos at #AAS2025 and had a chat for his YouTube channel, The Chinese Alphabet: